Asymptotic cumulants of the parameter estimators in item response theory

Computational Statistics

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 313-331

  Ogasawara, Haruhiko ^a  

^a OTARU UNIVERSITY OF COMMERCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Asymptotic expansion; Bias; Item response theory; Marginal maximum likelihood; Model misspecification; Skewness

Indexed keywords

EID: 67349230377     PISSN: 09434062     EISSN: 16139658     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00180-008-0118-8     Document Type: Article

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